Delegation Requires Confidence

An interesting side effect of working with AI agents for personal projects is they force you into professional workflows, even for solo and throwaway projects. Delegation requires confidence, and confidence in agents requires tooling. After raw-dogging my blog on Jekyll for over a decade, my recent blog redesign and migration to Next/React was the first solo project I tried to manage by only reviewing outputs instead of reading every line of code. Redoing my personal site felt like a perfect testbed for this new way of working because it was low stakes. It seemed simple, but it carried years of invisible compatibility promises and accumulated "just this one line" changes. A static blog has non-obvious obligations, and a personal one started by a college sophomore obviously has zero specs around its old URLs, RSS feeds, structured metadata, archive pages, social previews, analytics, asset pipelines, and other implementation details that I forgot I handrolled over the years. Finding…